Radio Rootz Schoolz 2007-2008
Written by Administrator Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:35
Radio Rootz taught in four schools in New York in the 2007-2008 school year and in two schools in Washington DC.
The schools that have participated for this year are to your right. Here you can get to hear what radio each school produced, plus read about the great reporters from those schools ----->
Radio Rootz also continued our year-long curriculum model, and used our in-house talent to incorporate a focus on the 2008 elections. Rootz created lessons for both middle and high school students on topics including: My Stump Speech, Candidate Spin, Issues We Want to See Addressed by Candidates, and Media Coverage of Primary Races.
Media Monitoring Project 08:For our media-monitoring project this year, we partnered with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a nationally renowned media watch-dog group, to help us design and implement a media analysis project based on local media coverage of the Presidential Primary races. We collected daily coverage from three local media outlets (NY1's 11pm news, New York Post and AM news of Power 105 fm) for thirty days between January 15 and February 15. We then had our youth leaders (graduates from the previous school year and summer program) do an initial perusing of the media collected and collaborate with staff to create a logging sheet. One high school senior, Krystal Graham, was tasked as the project leader for the entire recording/collection period to ensure that we taped and collected every single issue/episode of the media in that time period. She excelled in this task. After deep consultations with experienced FAIR staff, we created basic logging sheets for each medium and each school took responsibility for logging one section. The findings are still being compiled.
